Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-17

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disposition to do more for this city
but unless we can get into the city
we cannot do what we intended, and will
have to change our plans. Let the citi
Z9ns of Fort Worth procure for US fouI
and one-helf miles right of way from a
point near Hodge, only as far as the tres
tie near the ice works, and in ninety days
we will have our own track in Fort WORTH
to the land the company owns. The citi-
zens can obtain this right of way much
cheaper than we can, probably for SIS,
900 or S2G, geo. If this is not done we
will not build in, but will make arrange
ments to use the track of some other
road. If we can get this right of way,
and build our tracks to our grounds, we
will locate our large machine shops
and d twenty-stall rounGhOu5e in Fort
Worth. This wonld make Fort Worth
an end of division for all train crews and
would give employment to large num-
Der of men. If we cannot get into Fort
Wortl over our own line we will have to
put our shops and round-house where
we can get to them and where we can get
the land at q smalAamount."
The reporter asked If the company
would 60 into the county Of Tarrant be-
yond the city limits,
To this Colonel Jones and General
Dodge both replied that they would have
TO 90 some distance beyond Tarrant
county.
Chow about reaching the union depot,
Genersl?n
"Thc present depot Is not situated in q
convenient place for the business now
done here, and the railroads will prob
ably arrange for change. In my juGg-
ment the depot should be placed in the
angle between the Texas and Pacific res
ervation and the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe track, where ell the roads could
get to it," This is the land north of
Front street and east of the Windsor
hotel, and it is understood belongs in
part to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
and in part to the Texas and Pacific.
After few words on othe. matters the
reporter withdrew.
There can be no question that an i'm
pGrtant question stares Fort Worth in the
face The Fort Worth and Denver Rail-
road wants right of way to the lands pur-
chased by the company in this city for the
purpose of building depots, .roundhouse,
shops and yards. Ii 1t cannot get this
right of way it will not establish these
shops, etc, in Fort Worth. The Fort
Worth and Denver will soon be a
great trunk road, uniting Fort
Worth not only to the great Panhandle
but to the great northwest, to New Mex
leo, to Colorado, Wyoming, and Oregon,
and when en- extension is made from
Fort Fetterman to the north to Montana
and still beyond with the Union Pacific,
and then the Canadian Pacific, all the
trade of this vast country seeking tide
water through Fort Worth via the Fort
and Denver, and this road compelled
to enter this city over the
tracks of another company. Fort Worth,
the initial point of one of the grandest
railway systems projected by the genius
of man; Fort Worth located in the heart
of country which raises what the dwell
lers in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,
Oregon and Canada do not raise and must
buy from US; Fort Worth with the
water and the facilities to man
ufacture the raw cotton and
wool into fabrics to be worn by hundreds
of thousands of people; Fort Worth, the
entrepot for every pound of coffee, every
barrel Of sugar, every gallon Of
every orange and lemon, every
pound of rice and countless other arti-
cles that will surely reach this empire
TO the northwest of US over
the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad,
4 road projected by Fort Worth
men road that has brought to our doors
The trade of q territory desired by all
Texas cities, and this road to begiA three |
miles from Fort Worth, when, by prompt |
action, in ninety days it would be in our |
midst, and its hundreds of busy workmen |
n the shops TO be located here would be |
aiding in working out our grand destiny. !
General Dodge will be here three days. |
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There will be an excursion from Fort
Worth to Galveston tomorrow morning,
the 18th; tickets for round trip
good to return till Tuesday, ST. The !
so morning train has reclining chair
:ars, the 1926 nighttrain buffet sleeperS.
The trains returning leave Galveston a.
and O'Clock.
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The Kansas City train over the Atchi-
on-Gulf is o handsome one; the cars are
il new and bear the legend, Southern
Kansas (Gulf Divlsion).
The Fort Worth ana Rio Grande engin-
through the city of Stephenvile before
many days have passed.
Colonel d. c. Roberts, general agent
t the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
With headquarters at New Orleans, was
I Fort Worth last night.
b. G. Fleming, superintendent of the
dissouri Pacific railroad in Texas, was IN
ort Worth last night in his special car
General Dodge says when the Fort
Worth ana Denver is built to Denver and
he road from Fort Fettermsn to the
anadian Pacific the people of Fort {
Torth will be hunting for the |
orth pole by railroad. The .
ort will certainly be resching for Alaska {